Michael Chabon's "Gentlemen of the Road"

Michael Chabon's 2007 tale, Gentlemen of the Road, a picaresque short novel set in 10th-century Khazaria (Eastern Europe/Western Asia, near the Caspian and Black Seas) and environs, is now out

in trade paperback here in the U.S. Fun story in the spirit of adventure novels from a century ago, with cute old-fashioned chapter headings (e.g., Chapter Nine: On Anxieties Arising from the Impermissiblity, However Unreasonable, of an Elephant's Rounding Out a Prayer Quorum).

As the risk of exposing a spoiler which is important to the story but wouldn't slip past anyone who reads stories here, there's some TG content significant to the plot.

Eric

(ISBN 978-0-345-50207-0, from Del Rey Books.)